Vehicle.



No. 735,816. Y PATENTED AUG. 11,1903.

A. L. PRESCOTT. I

VEHICLE.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 28, 19 01. NO MODEL.

Patented August 11, 1903 i PATENT OFFICE.

AMOS L. PRESCOTT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,816, dated August 11, 1903.

Application filed December 28, 1901. Serial No. 87,605. (Nomodeld To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, AMos L.PREsoorr,a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of thecity of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to road-vehicles having folding footboards and folding seats, either or both; and it consists in certain novel combinations of parts, hereinafter set forth and claimed.

The leading objects of the invention are to provide for quickly and readily converting a two-seated vehicle into a one-seat vehicle, and vice versa, to consolidate the front seat,

its back, footboard, and dash into the front or wind-break of the one seat arrangement, and more particularly to provide for covering a removable front seat or a luggage-space formed or exposed by the removal of such seat by means of a folding seat-back and a folding footboard, either or both, to form a neat and commodious dasher-box,as it may be termed, and to provide such folding footboard with a folding dash, which may be of ample size to protect the person or persons riding upon the front seat and which may at showing by full and dotted lines the movable parts in their two positions.

Like letters and numbers refer to like part in the several figures.

For the purposes of this invention the run: hing-gear of the vehicle, with'its appurtenances (not shown) and the body a of the vehicle, including its rear seat or seats b, may be of any known or improved construction.

The front portion of the body, to which the present invention is confined, is of the following construction: The front seat 1 is adapted to drop or fold forwardly on a pair of pivots c, Fig. 3, and is supported by said pivots and apair of laterally-folding props d, beneath its front edge, between a pair of rigid sides 2 and in front of a rigid back 3, suitably erected upon the body-sills 4. To the top of said rigid back 3 a forwardly-folding back 5 is attached by hinges e, and to the front edge of the sills 4 a folding footboard 6 is attached by hinges J", said folding back and footboard being so shaped and proportioned as to jointly cover the folded seat on top and in front, as in dotted lines in Fig. 3, the upper edge of the folding back and the front edge of the footboard meeting at a convenient point, as shownat g, Figs. 2 and 3. said front edge of the footboard a folding dash 7 is attached by hinges h, Figs. 2 and 3, and a fastening or fastenings 2', Figs. 2 and 3, provide for rendering the dash rigid when the footboard is in use, said fastenings being preferably in the form of springhooks attached to the dash in front and snapping beneath the front edge of the footboard. Flexible supports 8 and 9, preferably and conveniently of chain covered with leather or fabric, extend from a staple j or its equivalent on each of the rigid sides 2 to the folding-back 5 and to the footboard 6, respectively, to sustain the same when they are extended for use. When the parts are folded, said flexible supports 8 and 9 readily accommodate themselves behind the folded back and footboard. When the parts are so folded, as represented in Fig. 2 and dotted lines in Fig. 3, they constitute, together with said rigid sides 2 and back 4, an ornate and efiective dasher-box front or wind-break for the seat I) behind, and when extended, as in Fig. 1 and full lines in Fig. 3, they afiord a safe and commodious seat for two at the front 0 the vehicle. I The space beneath the front seat loonveniently accommodates the fuel storage tank of an automobile, and when said seat is removed considerable additional space is afforded forluggage beneath the folding back 5 as a lid. To facilitate so removing said front seat 1, its pivots c are preferably and conveniently spring-bolts, so that they can be retracted at will to free the seat.

The vehicle may have one or more back seats of any description. The frontseat may be adapted to be accommodated behind the folded footboard without being dropped. Hinged or sliding supports may take the place of the flexible supports 8 and 9, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described said improvement,

I claim as my invention and desire to patent such seat, and a folding footboard uniting with said back to close the front and top of the box when folded.

5. The combination, in a vehicle, of a forwardly-folding front seat, laterally-folding props beneath its front edge for supporting said seat in efiective position, a forwardlyfolding back for said seat, and a rearwardlyfolding footboard uniting with said back to cover the folded seat.

6. The combination, in a vehicle, ofa front seat folding forwardly,laterally-folding props beneath the front edge of the seat, a forwardly-folding seat-back, a rearwardly-folding footboard uniting with said back to cover the folded seat, and a folding dash hinged to said footboard and folding behind the folded footboard.

AMOS L. PRESCOTT. Witnesses:

J AS. L. EWIN, LESLIE S. LOCKHART. 

